Garment-form.



N. GLODDY.

GARMENT FORM. APPLICATION FILED MAY 19. 1914.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH CO.,\VASH1NGTDN, D. C.

NELSON GLODDY, OF HILLSBORO, NEW HALMPSHIRE.

GARMENT-FORM. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed May 19,1914. Serial No. 839,604.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, NELSON GLonDY, citizen of the United States,residing at Hillsboro, in the county of I-Iillsboro and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Forms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in forms for garments, moreparticularly to undergarments, such as undershirts, drawers, stockings,and the like, and has for one of its objects to improve the constructionand increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed formin which the edges are of smooth metal rounded and symmetrical, andconforming in outline to the garment with which they are associated.

WVith these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described andthen specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawingsillustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure l is aside elevation of the improved device arranged as a form for dryingstockings. Fig. 2 is a transverse section enlarged on the line 22 ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view on a reduced scale of the improved devicearranged as a form for supporting an undershirt. Fig. 4 is a view on areduced scale of the improved device shown arranged as a form forsupporting a pair of drawers.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The improved device comprises a body represented conventionally at 10and provided with a sheet metal binding represented at 11, preferablyU-shaped transversely and embracing ortions of the sides of the body 10,as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The body 10 together with its binding 11 conforms in outline to thegarment with which it is engaged, and thus stretches the garmentequallyat all points. In Fig. 1 the body 10 together with its binding 11is in the form of a stocking, while in Figs. 3 and 4 the device is shownrespectively in the form of an undershirt and a pairv of drawers, thevarious forms being employed to illustrate the fact that the device isapplicable to garments of different sizes and forms without materialstructural change. The body 10 may be of any suitable material, but willpreferably be of heavy card board, or the like, while the binding 11will be a continuous strip of sheet metal, preferably brass or the like,and smooth upon the outer face and rounded at the corners to preventabrasion of the garment.

When employed as a drying form for larger garments such as shirts,drawers, and the like, the body will preferably be in sections hingedlyunited, as shown at 12, in Figs. 3 and 4, to facilitate inserting in thegarment and likewise to occupy less room when not in use. By this simplemeans the garment is held firmly in stretched position while beingdried, and no danger exists of the rupture of the threads of the garmentbv Contact with the form. The body 10 provides the necessary stiffnessand rigidity to the device, while the binding prevents abrasion orfracture of the threads of the garment.

In forms heretofore used constructed of wood, they are liable tofracture while the edges are liable to become roughened and to splinteror sliver and are thus rendered liable to tear the garments while beingin serted therein or removed therefrom. With the improved device, alldanger of fracture of the garments is avoided, and a strong durable formis produced which may be repeatedly used and wherein no danger exists ofbreakage or fracture by rough usage or the shrinking of the garments.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be formed of anyrequired shape or size and of any suitable material.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a garment form, coacting elements longitudinally tapered throughoutthe major portion of their length and each formed from a piece offibrous material having unbroken area, the said elements being normallydisposed in a common plane with the inner edges thereof at the largerextremities of the said elements confronting and swingingly connected atlongitudinally spaced points, the free extremities of said elementsaround the free edges of each of said elehaving straightouter end edgesand being ments. 10 provided with straight and uninterrupted Intestimony whereof I affix' my signainner and outer edges with the outeredges ture in presence of two witnesses.

arranged substantially parallel and the v NELSON GLODDY. [L. s] inneredges throughout the major portion of Witnesses:

their length diverging outwardly, and a HARRY JOHNS N,

continuous metallic binding strip extending DANIEL DONEGAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C."

